Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."